Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

Keep your lies short and simple.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.